README.md

In unimi-dse/d15048e7: The Economist article text analysis

theeconomist

d15048e7

Scrap article text from The Economist website (https://www.economist.com/). Count the words and plot the result

Installation

# first install the R package "devtools" if not installed
devtools::install_github('unimi-dse/d15048e7')

Usage

# load the package
require(theeconomist)

Functions

Function | Description | Examples ---------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------ get_text() | Scrap The Economist article body text. | get_text("united-states/2020/02/11/donald-trump-loosens-americas-restrictions-on-landmines") get_links() | Get all the articles links from The Economist homepage . | get_links() count_words() | Build a tibble with the most frequent words and plot it. | analyze_text("united-states/2020/02/11/donald-trump-loosens-americas-restrictions-on-landmines")

Type ?Function for a complete description of the functions (for example, ?get_links())

Arguments

Argument link is used in get_text() and count_words() . link is a character string, you can paste and copy one of the element of the list form get_links()

Packages Imported

dplyr, rvest, tibble, tidytext, ggplot2, xml2, magrittr

Author: Marco Del Treppo

Date: February 2020

unimi-dse/d15048e7 documentation built on Feb. 13, 2020, 1:35 a.m.